Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 11:31:27 +0000 From: Aleksandar Simic <alex@frustum.clara.co.uk> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bad CD ? Message-ID: <38A3F30F.2CD8FA69@frustum.clara.co.uk> References: <38A34D56.7B4FD808@frustum.clara.co.uk> <38A34F65.34853F9A@frustum.clara.co.uk> <20000211130944.G76521@freebie.lemis.com>
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Hi, Thanks for replying. Greg Lehey wrote: > On Thursday, 10 February 2000 at 23:53:09 +0000, Aleksandar Simic wrote: > > Aleksandar Simic wrote: > >> > >> My question is: > >> > >> Did I just get a CD's from a badly burned batch or is this how release > >> 3.4 is supposed to be ? > > No. > > >> I received FreeBSD 3.4, two days ago. Upon trying to install it I have > >> found that it is not bootable. > > What happened was that some mods were made to the bootstrap. They > worked fine on the hardware on which they were developed, but it seems > that some BIOSes expect additional dependencies which go beyond the > standard, and they don't recognize the bootstrap. My motherboard is Intel SE440-BX-2, Phoenix BIOS 4.0, Release 6.0. > The following method should work: > > 1. Boot from the *second* CD-ROM. > > 2. When the kernel configuration screen is displayed, change to the > first CD-ROM. > > 3. Continue. > > If anybody tries this, please let me know in private mail whether it > worked. It does for me, but in this case that's not enough :-) > That is the method I used to install, after somebody suggested it on the mailing list to me. > >> Somehow I managed to get it installed, but so many things seem to be > >> acting strange. > >> > >> -XF86Setup, graphical X setup, just plain fails to start up. > > What's the message? There is no message. When I start it from /stand/sysinstall it just informs me that it has successfully installed the mouse on /dev/sysmouse, it doesn't even start XF86Setup and then prompts me to pick a window manager. > >> -Fetchmailconf spews the following: > >> > >> inconsistent dedent > >> File "/usr/local/libexec/fetchmailconf.bin", line 1131 > >> if string.find(greetline, "1.003") > 0 or string.find(greetline, > >> "1.004") > 0: > >> SyntaxError: invalid token > > Was this an upgrade? That could have been part of the problem. No it wasn't an upgrade. I did a clean install of 3.4. > >> -fvwm2, sort of installs. > > Good. Not really, because system.fvwm2rc is nowhere to be found. > >> -Netscape (all 4.* FreeBSD versions) dump core without even starting > >> up. > > Hmm. Not typical. Do you know a fix to this ? CVS-uping is not an option. > >> -Xemacs dumps core without even starting up, just like Netscape. > > Are you sure your X installation is complete? Yes it is, because I can run "normal" Emacs, certain other OS's Netscape works fine under emulation. And many other apps run as expected. > >> I have first purchased FreeBSD 2.8 with Greg Lahey's book, and have > > ^^^^ > > I ment to say 2.2.8. :) > > Maybe you meant to say "Greg Lehey", too :-) Sorry about that. :) -Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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